Bag-holder



(No Model.)

0. G. NOSKER & P. E. WHITSON.

" BAG HOLDER.

No. 450,747. Patented Apr. 21, 1891.

- GHQ-Elm UNITED STATES PATENI OFFICE.

ORREN G. NOSKER AND PETER E. \YllI'lSON, OF SHELDON, ILLINOIS.

BAG-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 450,747, dated April21, 1891.

Application filed October 2, 1890.

To aZZ whom, it may concern- Be it known that we, ORREN G. NOsKER andPETER E. \VHITSON, citizens of the United States, residing at Sheldon,in the county of Iroquois, State of Illinois, have invented certain newand useful Improvements in Bag- I Iolders, of which the following is aspecification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in devicesdesigned primarily for holding paper bags and like articles in groceryand confectionary stores, but will be found applicable to other uses.

It has for its object, among others,to provide a simple and cheap devicewhich will hold a large or small quantity of bags and permit of theready removal of one without disturbing the others. The ends of the bagsarefpreferably folded to provide for the more ready removal of onewithout disturbing the others.

The device may be provided with a base by which it may be supported upona counter or shelf, or it may be hung upon a hook or other support. Itmay be used perpendicularly or horizontally. One supporting; or backpiece may be provided with one or more sets of clamps.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will hereinafter appearand the novel features thereof will be more particularly pointed out inthe appended claims.

The invention is clearly illustrated in the accompanying drawings,which, with the letters of reference marked thereon, form a part of thisspecification, and in which-- Figure 1 is a face view of one form of ourimproved device. Fig. 2 is an end view thereof. Fig. is a verticaltransverse section through a portion of the device, on an enlargedscale.

Like letters of reference indicate like parts throughout the severalviews.

Referring now to the details of the draw in gs by letter,A designates asupporting-piece, preferably of wood, and may be of any desired size orshape. In Figs. 1 and 2 we have shown it as provided with and affixed toa base a and ornamented by a suitable cap a; but it may be arrangedwithout base and adapted to be placed or held upon thecountcr Serial No.366,857. (No model.)

or to be hung upon a hook or other support, as preferred. In this pieceA we form a transverse slot Z), extending lengthwise of the said pieceand communicating with a right-angled slot or opening 0, as seen clearlyin Fig. 1. o form two of these slots parallel with each other, andwithin the right-angled portions thereof we arrange the coils of thespringclamp. There may be one clamp or more upon one side only of thepiece A; orthe clamp may be arranged upon both sides thereof, as seenFigs. 2 and 3. These clamps are formed of wire, of suitable size ahdresiliency, bent into substantially the form of a U, as seen in Fig. 1,with their ends secured upon the face of the piece A by suitablemeans-such, for instance, as the staples cl-the convolutes or coils 0,being arranged in the slots 0, and the body portion of the wire extendedthrough the slots Z), and having a bearing upon the piece or the bagsupon the opposite face thereof, as seen more clearly in Fig. 3. Thetransverse portion of the clamp is preferably formed with a loop or eyef, by which it may be readily manipulated to insert a bunch of bags, asshown in Fig. The body portion of the clamp may be parallel with thesupportingpiece A, or they maybe curved, as shown in Fig. 3, to providegreater space for the ends of the bags, as seen in Fig. 3. IVhen thusformed, the eye or loops f should be bent outward away from thesupporting-piece, so that the finger may readily catch the loop or eyeand the clamp will bear upon the bags at the point of the eye or loop atits junction with the main body of the clamp.

hen the device is used horizontally or when it is hung upon the wall,the clamps will be upon but one side of the picccAonly; but whenarranged to stand upon the counter the clamps will be used upon bothsides, as seen in Figs. 2 and 3, the clamps having their main portionscrossing each other in the slots, as

seen in Fig. 0.

The manner of use will be readily understood from the above descriptionwhen taken in connection with the drawings, especially Fig. 3. The bagsB are doubled over at the ends, as seen in the said figure, thebearingpoint of the clamp being upon the body of the outer bag with thefolded ends beneath the body portion of the clamp, so that the ends arepractically unconfined or unrestrained, so that when the outer bag isWithdrawn it does not disturb the others, and as 5 the bags are removedthe clamp automatically falls against the next remaining bag and holdsthe bunch in place. Of course the clamps maybe used to hold the bagsfiat without their ends being doubled; but we Io have found that theycan be more readily removed without disturbing the others by folding theends of the bags, as shown.

It will be observed that by this construction the coils are confinedwithin the limit of r 5 the supporting-piece out of the way and thedevice as a whole is simple and compact.

The eyes or loops f may be omitted, if desired.

\Vhat we claim as new is 2o 1. As an improved article of manufacture,

picco, its coils confined in the transverse slots, and its arms passedthrough the longitudinal slots to the opposite side of the support andadapted to clamp the bags against the face of the supporting-piece,substantially as described.

3. A bag-clamp consisting of a supportingpiece having longitudinal slotsand transverse slots communicating therewith, and springwire clampshaving their ends secured upon opposite sides of the supporting-piecewith their coils located in thetransverse slots and their body portionspassed through the 1ongitudinal slots and adapted to clamp the bagsagainst the face of the supporting-piece opposite that to which the endsof the clamps are secured; substantially as described.

4. The combi'natiom'with the support having longitudinal and transverseslots, of the spring-wire clamps secured upon opposite sides of thesupport and having coils within the transverse slots with their bodyportions crossed in the longitudinal slots and extended to the side ofthe support opposite to that to which they are secured, substantially asspecified.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in presence of twowitnesses.

ORREN G. NOSKER. P TER E. WVHITSON.

Witnesses:

GEORGE H. GAY, A. R. SHARP.

